Letters: Thanks to St John Ambulance and Whanganui Hospital

One reader writes about their experience with St John and Whanganui Hospital. Photo / NZME

I would like to say thank you to the two St John Ambulance officers who arrived to assist and transport my elderly husband to Whanganui Hospital.

They were compassionate and very professional and made a distressing time calm.

I followed the ambulance to the hospital and they did a fantastic job of making my husband as comfortable as possible.

When I arrived at the hospital in Whanganui the lady on the reception was lovely and let me through to A&E so I could be near my husband.

The hospital staff were very compassionate and worked to help my husband, who was in a lot of pain and had trouble breathing.

The service that the Whanganui Hospital gave my husband was very professional and compassionate.

This service was offered by all staff who worked on my husband to make him comfortable.

Thank you once again Whanganui Hospital for the fantastic service.

You have a wonderful environment for the patients, who are often very unwell, to be in.

CYNTHIA and CLIFF BURGESS
Waverley

Taking issue with cartoon

I take issue with the Body's View cartoon in the June 14 Chronicle.

I agree that the intention to make the movie "They are us" is insensitive when the victims' families and survivors are still coming to terms with the appalling event.

I think , though, that showing a clapboard with the words "White Saviour Productions" could be termed racist. The film-makers were not focusing on the colour of Jacinda Ardern's skin, but on the way she dealt with the atrocity.

Racist remarks or comments relate to every skin colour, not just a selected few.

DOUG PRICE
Castlecliff

Why should I get a say?

What's happened to democracy in this country? A notice appeared in the Whanganui Midweek recently, advising that the Geographic Board proposes to change the name of Maxwell to Pākaraka and inviting anyone supporting or objecting to that action, to make a submission.

That means that anyone in NZ is to have a say in the naming of the district currently called Maxwell, whether they live there or not - assuming, of course, all submissions will carry equal weight.

That hardly seems democratic to me. I should have thought that its name should be determined by the people with a vested interest in the place, i.e. anyone who owns property or lives there - i.e. the ratepayers of Maxwell. I don't live there so why should I have any say at all in what the locals want to call their village?

G.A MCGRATH
Whanganui

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